This has been a great victory for people who are anti-politics. They have voted for the party they feel is the most anti-political. You know, the one that goes big not being different. Hate the different. Hate the gays. Hate the foreigners. Hate the blacks. Hate the Asians. Hate the women. Hate stuff that you don’t understand. Hate the other.
Fascism always presents itself as the anti-politics option. Not the jackboots and blackshirts and pogroms. No. Just vote for us now, it says, and we’ll make you great again. Nothing to worry about.
But those gays: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
Those foreigners: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
Those Islams: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
Those Jews: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
Those socialists: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
Those trade unionists: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
Those uppity women: you’re better than them because you’re normal. We don’t want to kill them, we just want to make sure they know that normal people are the majority. Vote for us.
And then there was nobody left to vote for your rights as a “normal” person. Ah well.